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PTH2009

Lemming wrote: »

Hmmm, SSE in Glasgow; seated (bringing the other half) or standing ... for anyone who has been there, if seated, what's the best seating section? Otherwise it's standing because my personal opinion is "who the f*ck sits at a rock/metal gig?!!"

Roll on the pre-sales tomorrow

Any seat would be good i imagine as the stage is in the middle of the arena



heres a pic from the WWE shows there last Nov (Sec 205 Row E)

Mental Mickey

I thought the seating in the 3 Arena was flexible(i.e it can be moved around)? Surely they can accommodate Metallica's stage set up in it?
I remember they crammed in the Snakepit and the in the round stages in the old Point in the 90s?

Surely they can do the same for this tour??

Or maybe they just aren't being offered enough $ to play?

PTH2009

Glasgow ticket got

Block 206 Row A E117.17 (£101.45)

plenty more concerts to go before this

hope everyone else got lucky

Lemming

PTH2009 wrote: »

Glasgow ticket got

Block 206 Row A E117.17 (£101.45)

plenty more concerts to go before this

hope everyone else got lucky

x2 Glasgow standing tickets at £96.50 each sorted. This will be the first time my other half has been to a Metallica gig and it's the week of her birthday so well timed.

It's on like donkey-kong b1tches!

Koptain Liverpool

Got sorted for the Tues in London. Happy days
The Sunday in London seemed to be gone instantly.

Jayesdiem

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

Got sorted for the Tues in London. Happy days
The Sunday in London seemed to be gone instantly.

I don't think so? I had a couple of seated tickets and had to back out and look for more when I messed up my billing address. I got slightly "worse" ones but they seemed easy enough to get.

Koptain Liverpool

Jayesdiem wrote: »

I don't think so? I had a couple of seated tickets and had to back out and look for more when I messed up my billing address. I got slightly "worse" ones but they seemed easy enough to get.

Sorry I meant for standing rather than gone altogether

happyoutscan

Sorted for Manchester, great seats Block 115. This will be a quick easy jaunt from Knock Airport to Liverpool, just stay the 1 night.

Trying to get tickets for Amsterdam as well, enjoy a couple nights there.

Dyr

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I thought the seating in the 3 Arena was flexible(i.e it can be moved around)? Surely they can accommodate Metallica's stage set up in it?
I remember they crammed in the Snakepit and the in the round stages in the old Point in the 90s?

Surely they can do the same for this tour??

Or maybe they just aren't being offered enough $ to play?

They didnt do the 92 point gig in the round, did the 96 point gig in the round and it was pretty poor as a result IMO

Mental Mickey

Bambi wrote: »

They didnt do the 92 point gig in the round, did the 96 point gig in the round and it was pretty poor as a result IMO

The 96 gig was savage

seachto7

I was at 92 and 96 gigs. 96 way better imo.

psychozeb

Bambi wrote: »

They didnt do the 92 point gig in the round, did the 96 point gig in the round and it was pretty poor as a result IMO

92 gig was in the round also.99 gig had standard stage set up

psychozeb

Got Sunday seated for London but fairly high up.London standing all gone early. Switched to Birmingham and had two standing but verified messed that up so ended up losing them.by the time that got sorted had a go at London again then.will try again in general sale and if I get standing will flog the seated.

jack presley

psychozeb wrote: »

92 gig was in the round also.99 gig had standard stage set up

92 definitely wasn't in the round. They had the snakpit alright and Lars' drum kit did rotate around the stage a bit but all the audience was in front of the stage

Lemming

jack presley wrote: »

92 definitely wasn't in the round. They had the snakpit alright and Lars' drum kit did rotate around the stage a bit but all the audience was in front of the stage

The nowhere else to roam ('92) tour had two stage configurations; arena-rock with the pit in the middle, and a traditional stage set-up with the pit sticking out the front of the stage, which is what I seem to recall Dublin getting (I wasn't there for that gig).

'96 was an arena-rock stage, '99 was traditional stage setup (with no pit).

Koptain Liverpool

psychozeb wrote: »

Got Sunday seated for London but fairly high up.London standing all gone early. Switched to Birmingham and had two standing but verified messed that up so ended up losing them.by the time that got sorted had a go at London again then.will try again in general sale and if I get standing will flog the seated.

You know though that the tickets have your name printed on them and ID is needed to get in. So if selling you'd need to be going also as far as I know....

psychozeb

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

You know though that the tickets have your name printed on them and ID is needed to get in. So if selling you'd need to be going also as far as I know....

Know lads in London that might take them off me.

Lemming

FYI folks, all of the allocated fan-club pre-sales are sold out, with the exception of Oct 24th in London.

Zwillinge

Got a Manchester ticket this morning in the fifth member presale.
Never seen them indoors, so should be funsies!

feylya

For some reason, I thought they went on sale this evening. Missed out on tickets. Hopefully get some on Friday...

Lemming

feylya wrote: »

For some reason, I thought they went on sale this evening. Missed out on tickets. Hopefully get some on Friday...

Fey, if you've got something like O2 Priority, those ticket sales go on sale tomorrow morning at 09.00; some of the venues (like the SSE in Glasgow) have their own VIP schemes that will go on sale tomorrow morning too.

Also, the O2 arena fan-club tickets for London (Tues 24th October) have not sold out (just checked again).

PTH2009

Photo from Denmark not even a big screen

very possible for that stage to be in the 3arena :mad::mad::mad:

Mental Mickey

jack presley wrote: »

92 definitely wasn't in the round. They had the snakpit alright and Lars' drum kit did rotate around the stage a bit but all the audience was in front of the stage

They had 2 drum kits on that night. And I think it WAS ITR???

happyoutscan

Mental Mickey wrote: »

They had 2 drum kits on that night. And I think it WAS ITR???

Nope, definitely not itr. Had the snake pit protruding from center stage, triangular shape with ramp around.

jack presley

He's right about the 2 drum kits though. I'd forgotten about that.

lord lucan

jack presley wrote: »

He's right about the 2 drum kits though. I'd forgotten about that.

Definitely 2 kits but the stage was the ITR stage but pushed back against the back wall of the Point so only the front part had fans around it.

I remember having a big poster on my wall from that tour with a pic of the stage in a US arena and being disappointed on arriving at the Point to see the scaled back version we got. Still a brilliant gig,I'd cringe now though if any band done the intermittent live link to the dressing room with the band goofing around bit.

jack presley

Thinking back, wtf was the point of the 2 drum kits, apart from stroking Lars' ego?

lord lucan

jack presley wrote: »

Thinking back, wtf was the point of the 2 drum kits, apart from stroking Lars' ego?

Aside from an ego trip for Lars and a chance for James and Lars to good about on 2 kits,i suppose it meant that at different stages the drum kit was near different fans and not too one side of the stage so one side of the stage only got to see Lars in action.

lord lucan

Great stage in fairness,my first Metallica show. I've never come across a bootleg of it though, would love to listen back to it now.

Wanderer78

lord lucan wrote: »

Great stage in fairness,my first Metallica show. I've never come across a bootleg of it though, would love to listen back to it now.

i think i might have a wee bit of that gig on tape somewhere